Comments about Marianne Moore

Poetry

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers init after all, a place for the genuine.Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can riseif it must, these things are important not because a

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but becausethey areuseful. When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that wedo not admire whatwe cannot understand: the ...